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Scientific Manpower

OCT 01, 1950
ACS calls for national action
Physics Today

Under the pressure of the Korean and Cold Wars, the Selective Service System is rapidly gathering momentum in its program of calling up the organized reserves and drafting men into the armed forces. Meanwhile, and although there has been common acceptance of the vital role of science and technology in military preparedness, no effective means of preventing the wasteful use of the training and skills of scientists are yet formally operative nor even indicated as an early probability.

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